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Reading by Angela Pneuman
Presented as part of CCA's HearSay Reading Series
Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 7:30–9:30 pm
Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
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The writer ZZ Packer praises Angela Pneuman's debut novel, Home Remedies, as "smart, brave, and unflinchingly honest. . . . Angela Pneuman is a writer of such flinty brilliance and such dead-on, deadpan humor it's often hard to believe you’ve arrived at the end of a story until stunned by the last gesture or word." Julie Orringer calls Pneuman "one of the most astonishingly talented young writers working today."
Home Remedies weaves together short, stand-alone fictional stories, all sharing a thread of conservative Christian faith. The themes are often gritty: mental illness, cruelty, divorce, sexual exploration, and coping with death. In one, a 24-year-old woman is paid to collect money for charity outside department stores while sharing a twin bed (and neuroses) with her young niece. Another explores a young Christian teen's obsessive fear of premarital sex and how that fear plays out in a camp meeting where her father is the evangelist.
Pneuman holds an MFA in writing from Indiana University, a PhD in writing from SUNY Albany, and the Stegner Fellowship in writing from Stanford University, where she also teaches. She lives in California's Napa Valley.
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